#Wine to run exe on mac how to#

For whatever reason if it is not installed, or if you want to update the X11, you can download the latest version of XQuartz from . X11 is installed by default on OSX 10.6.x. You also need X11 prior to running ILWIS. However, “you must be an iOS or Mac Developer Program member to download Xcode 4 or you can purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store.” Although, you can still download 3.2.6 freely. As of the time of this writing, the latest version is V4. You can also download the latest version from . XCode is usually available on the installation DVDs that come with your system. But before that there are couple of prerequisite steps.

#Wine to run exe on mac how to#

The following describes how to install and configure WINE to run ILWIS. Fortunately, WINE is also available on OSX systems. WINE makes it possible to run windows machine on Linux OS. Running them on virtual machine will make them super slow and sometimes even it crashes. However, RS-GIS processing already take a lot of processing power and memory. You can either use one of the commercial ones, such as VMWare fusion, or Parallel Desktop, or you can use the freely available virtual machine provided by Oracle called virtualBox. The first solution is to choose one of the Virtual Machine softwares on OSX. So, for those OSX lovers, who want to use ILWIS, I discuss how to install and run ILWIS on OSX. One downside of ILWIS is that it is only available on Windows machines. For someone who wants to start to learn about GIS and RS, ILWIS is definitely a good starting point. But in my opinion ILWIS is very easy to use and is very powerful. ILWIS was developed by ITC (In July 2007, both the binaries and the source codes for ILWIS became freely available as-is under 52°North initiative (GPL license).īeing a graduate from ITC, I might be a little biased. Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) is a GIS-Remote Sensing (RS) software for windows operating systems.